⚠️ Historical Documentation Notice
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Re: Inaccurate data concerning myself on INS computer database. I have been advised by the Immigration Officer at Washington’s Dulles International Airport to make representations to you with a view to getting inaccurate data concerning myself erased from, or corrected on, the database of the Immigration & Naturalization Service computer. For the sake of certain inquiries which my attorneys are conducting in Canada, in relation to that country’s illegal deportation of myself
on November 13, I also wish to inquire about procedures to obtain access to the derogatory information that is contained on that database about myself, under your country’s Freedom of Information Act. Background: born
on March 24, 1938, I am a well known British historian, with over a score of serious books published in this country by Macmillan Ltd and others and in the USA by The Viking Press Inc., Little, Brown Inc., and others. My books are sometimes controversial, and in recent years I have been been the victim of schemes designed to harass me.
These have included the preparation of fake documents (your embassy’s legal officer was good enough to confirm to me that one document purporting to be an American official diplomatic dispatch, which is being widely circulated, is in fact a forgery) (see TAB “A”).
I have been travelling to the United States for about thirty years — research in the archives, lecturing, and vacationing twice a year in Key West, Florida, I have a Permanent Visitor’s Visa, valid indefinitely for Multiple entries, issued to me on […] in London. I attach a photocopy of that visa (TAB “F”) in my former passport number […]. My current passport number […] was issued in London
on January 4, 1989. History of this Case: By agreement with the Canadian authorities in Vancouver B.C. I was served with a voluntary departure notice
on October 30 to leave Canada by midnight November 1/2, 1992. I will be happy to go into the background of that controversy in a follow-up letter if you request. Suffice it to say here that it was the outcome of a campaign organised against me by my critics. I duly attempted, pursuant to that notice, to leave Canada before the appointed hour, driving in my rented Lincoln car which I had picked up at Dulles airport, back over the Whirlpool Bridge at Niagara Falls into the United States.
For some yet to be explained reason the immigration officer on the line (secondary immigration) there, a Mr Howe, after consultations, declined to allow me into the USA that evening although I had (a) the valid visa, and (b) the valid I-94 form still affixed in my passport. In consequence of his refusal, I was returned to Canadian soil and served with an automatic deportation order
on November 13 (which was, for other reasons, illegal). It now seems that Mr. Howe had been requested by the local Canadian authorities, who were dissatisfied with the voluntary departure notice, not to allow me into the USA, in order that they could serve a deportation notice on me. At the time it was not plain to me.